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Jeff Botz
Fine Art Photography
December 6 - January 3
December 13th, 5pm-7pm. Monthy Featured Artist Community Invited.
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On Saturday, December 11th from 5-7 p.m. Sky Art Gallery and Photo Studio will hold an opening reception for a breath-taking photo exhibit entitled Everest Not Everest, featuring the Himalayan photos of Jeff Botz. Everest Not Everest is the result of over 200 days on five trips to the Himalayas in Nepal and Tibet since 1998. Mr. Botz first visited the enchanted mountain Kingdom of Nepal in 1972 then returned for a four month visit in 1977. Only in 1998 did he return to travel to Everest with an 8x10” camera he built from a kit to fulfill a twenty year desire to photograph the Himalayas in the style of his original inspiration, Ansel Adams. It is a spiritual tribute to an awe-inspiring monument. The title for the show expresses Botz's feeling that the name Everest, homage to the British Surveyor General of India, is out of sync with the direct experience of the mountain and a diminution of its meaning. Situated on the border of Tibet and Nepal, the mountain's true identity lies in its older Tibetan name Qomolangma (pronounced, cho-mo-lang-ma), which means Goddess Mother of the World and the Nepali name, Sagarmatha, which means The Stick which Churns the Ocean of Existence. Says Botz, “The Tibetans assessed the mountain in qualitative terms while the British have surveyed it using purely quantitative means. The Tibetans standing before the mountain could feel its palpable physical presence and responded reverentially, inspired with awe. The British surveyed the mountain from between 70 and 150 miles away and over several years calculated its significance using complex trigonometric equations. To the Tibetans she was a Goddess, to the British a landmark. One attributed spiritual significance to the mountain, while the other geographic.” Regardless of what you call it, there is no denying the sense of wonder and awe that is captured by Botz's photographs. He takes the viewer on a pilgrimage. Botz is a world-class photographer. His photographic prints are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, and the Amon Carter Museum, among others. He has been awarded the ASC Regional Artist Grant and the Union County Community Arts Council monetary grant to publish a poster, which won the PICA (Printing Industry of the Carolinas) award for best large poster design and printing. Botz also won “Best in Show” at the Light Factory in Charlotte and had a one man show at the Hickory Museum of Art. He currently resides in Charlotte. In writing about mountains as monuments, Botz says, “I believe mountains speak to the ideals of Majesty, Dignity, and Nobility, and by extension Truth and Optimism. The mountains are monuments to these ideals rising above the chatter of everyday life, resolutely, and immovably facing the outrageous and relentless winds of adversity.” Don't miss the chance to be transformed by these truly amazing photographs. They will be on display at SKY through January 3rd.
Three-time winner of the Pilot's Best of Moore Award for "BEST" Art Gallery, SKY Art Gallery & John Gessner Photography are located at 602 Magnolia Drive in Aberdeen.
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Sky Art Gallery 602 Magnoliia Drive Aberdeen North Carolina 28315 Studio : 910 638 1687 Gallery : 910 944 9440
December 2008 Last Update
